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AI in Low-Power Devices, Microsoft Defender, GCP Cloud Functions, Debezium and Quarkus, Android Back Gestures, LinkedIn API Versions, Chipping Away at the Monolith, Cognitive Load, Remote Onboarding

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Becoming Better Communicators To Enable Team Performance

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods spoke to Arpit Mohan about the importance and value of interpersonal skills in teamwork. (Podcast)

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Deliberately Designing Culture for Creativity and Innovation

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods spoke to Dean Guida of Infragistics about what's needed to enable and support a collaborative, innovative culture. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. New Stanford Compute-In-Memory Chip Promises to Bring Efficient AI to Low-Power Devices

  2. Amazon's AlexaTM 20B Model Outperforms GPT-3 on NLP Benchmarks

  3. Azure Optimized Stack with DeepSpeed for Hyperscale Model Training

  4. Meta Develops Dataset Pruning Technique for Scaling AI Training

  5. Machine Learning Systems Vulnerable to Specific Attacks

Protecting User Data via Extensions on Metadata Management Tooling

Alyssa Ransbury overviews the current state of metadata management tooling, and details how Square implemented security on its data. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Brings Support for GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio Events to Amazon EventBridge

  2. AWS Private 5G Mobile Network Generally Available But without 5G Support

  3. New Microsoft Defender Products: Threat Intelligence and External Attack Surface Management

  4. AWS Adds Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer to Lambda Console

  5. New Features with the GA Release of Second-Generation Cloud Functions

Cloud Native Network Functions Are Here

Compute elasticity, for instance, is reasonably allocated with virtual machines, containers, and orchestrators and managed with CI/CD pipelines. Network elasticity seems to be lacking in implementation. In this article, we show that cloud native network functions are an attempt to bring network applications into the cloud native world. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: Extent-Local Variables, Payara Platform, Project Reactor, Ktor, Spring Web Flow

Debezium and Quarkus: Change Data Capture Patterns to Avoid Dual-Writes Problems

It’s common in microservices to write data in two places, a database and then send the content to another microservice. One approach to tackle this problem is dual writes, but you may lose data because of concurrent writes. Debezium is an open-source project for change data capture using the log scanner approach to avoid dual writes and communicate persisted data correctly between services. (Article)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. The Announcement of Discontinuing Google Cloud IoT Core Service Stirs the Community and Customers

Android Adds Experimental Support for Predictive Back Gestures

To help users understand where a back gesture will land them in an Android app, Google has introduced a new predictive back gesture. The new feature allows the user to decide whether they want to complete the gesture or not by showing an animated preview of the gesture outcome. (News)

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TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. The LinkedIn Way of Building API Versions

Chipping Away at the Monolith: Applying MVPs and MVAs to Legacy Applications

Legacy applications actually benefit the most from concepts like a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and its related Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA). Once you realize that every release is an experiment in value in which the release either improves the value that customers experience or doesn’t, you realize that every release, even one of a legacy application, can be thought of in terms of an MVP. (Article)

Creating a Secure Distributed Database Cluster Leveraging Your Existing Database Management System

The emergence of Big Data and data lakes doesn't necessarily mean the disappearance of the trusted relational database. The two can coexist, relational databases just need to adjust. For the transition we propose Database Plus, a new technology & concept applicable to any database, that answers these challenges and eliminates switching costs and vendor lock-in. (Article)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Dealing with Cognitive Load Using Observability

The Battle for Talent Can Be Won with Employee Recognition

In response to retaining high performers during an impending recession, employers need to prioritize giving employees recognition to increase retention and engagement. This article explores the power of recognition, what makes recognition meaningful, and how companies can create a culture of recognition in their workplace. (Article)

The IT Leader’s Guide to Helping Developers Avoid Burnout

The developer workforce has become increasingly distributed over the past two-plus years, contributing to new levels of stress. There are things IT can help leaders do to prepare for the future of software development, yet still ensure their teams have the tools and resources they need to keep individuals engaged, motivated, and fulfilled by their work. (Article)

Remote Onboarding: a Houseplant's Story

Kate Wardin discusses seven tips to foster an enjoyable and effective onboarding process for remote teams and a few add-on tips for those wishing to become skillful plant owners. (Presentation with transcript included)

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